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Thanks to all for letting me know!

It's a said day when hackers attack a site like that!

I mean come on



Anyway, I am alive and all is well for now anyway. Not sure how I got hacked but am working on it!

Mike "KoolBear" Sullivan

Just means you're cool, I guess, KB.

How pathetic can some people get.

You do have an upload feature, don't you? You might look into that. It's the first thing that came to mind when I saw this topic.

KB, if you host the site yourself, I suggest you keep up-to-date on the patches. The day exploits are announced, you'll have script kiddies prowling around looking for vulnerable targets. You just happened to get nailed.

Hey KB, thanks for fixing the site. Hope you reported those idiots.

All the people rejoiced.

/me puts a sloth in the oven

/me rejoices

Hey KB! (waves)

Thank you!

Once upon a time you were gonna interview me, whatever happened to that?

Lobber,
A wee thing called life captured me. But email me at koolbear@g-nospam-mail.com and I'll get it posted if you are still interested. I spent a lot of time developing Boy/Cub Scout sites here's a few http://www.scoutclub.net http://www.scoutsworld.net
http://www.scoutdata.net and http://www.tatankadistrict.org plus others

Slowguy you are welcome!

Hi Sarge! (Waves Back)

roid, poor sloth

Jeff250 lol

mob-messenger, you are welcome and yes I did

MD-2389 good point maybe I should start hosting it myself. I guess I am lucking the site has been online since late '96 and I can't recall being hacked before, guess I was just lucky

Sargent Thorne yes I do have an upload feature. I'll look into it. My hosting service was confident that it wasn't through thier contraol panel.

TigerRaptorFX my thoughts exactly, I mean a game site!

Plebeian lol good to see you are still here!

~~

You should play once in a while..

Heh! The bear lives!
You were already old when I was young...

Greetings from Belgium.

Holy crap he speaks!

Been downloading levels from your site since '96

Glad to see you're alive and well!

Great site KB! Keep it up!

KoolBear wrote:MD-2389 good point maybe I should start hosting it myself. I guess I am lucking the site has been online since late '96 and I can't recall being hacked before, guess I was just lucky

Yeah, you just happened to be the lucky one to get tagged by some stupid script kiddie.

btw, you should really thank the folks on kali. Thats how I found out about it, and then I told Jim.

Oh, if you do decide to host it yourself, I can put you in touch with a good friend of mine that can test your security. (He does this for a living) Just bug me on ICQ or AIM.

ICQ: 168701920
AIM: Chris VG1

NWRhino wrote:Holy crap he speaks!

He sings and dances to.

Hi.

hey cool bear. You should post the full game of descent 2 on ur page with the 2dx-w32 stuff included. It would be verrraa sweet.

And "verrraa" illegal. NEXT!

edit by pun - warez link

Listen newbie, the game isn't freeware. Its still being sold.

dude issac.. easy with the multiposts, arite?

ugh! omfg... 4 posts in a row. what are we going to do... ?
look! free descent 2! ooooOOOOooo
It's public domain, no?

Isaac wrote:ugh! omfg... 4 posts in a row. what are we going to do... ?
look! free descent 2! ooooOOOOooo
It's public domain, no?

No, its not. Only the source code has been released, and thats only so folks can make improvements on the game. Even then, they cannot sell them at any price for any commercial gain.

I suggest you have a read here and here. Until such time that it is officially released for public domain (which won't happen anytime soon), it is still commercial software and distributing it for free would be quite illegal. If you were talking about the ORIGINAL Descent, which WAS released for free by Interplay through PC Gamer, then I would agree with you. However, Descent 2 was NOT released for free by Interplay or Parallax, thus anyone hosting it for free is in violation of current software piracy laws as are you for linking to a site hosting such software. You could also get the host of this very board into trouble just by making that post, so I suggest you edit it out.


Oh by the way, YOU are the one being "pwned" here. Newbie.

Let's not hate on newbies. We don't want to end up with another acewombat.

oooooohhhh...
Look, MD-2389. I know it freaks you out if someone else teaches you something you thought you knew a lot about, but just saying youâ??re â??right, because youâ??re rightâ?

There's nothing "legal" at all about that download. And "abandonware," although a concept that most gamers favor, doesn't formally exist at all; unless a game is released as public domain by its publisher, it's still illegal to distribute copies of it or post it for download. It doesn't matter how many places it's available online; the game's EULA forbids any copying except for personal backup. Any pages that do have commercial games available for download aren't still around because they're not breaking the law; they're still around because the games' publishers haven't noticed them at all or no longer exist to notice them. That's it. End of story. And, I might add, insulting established members of this forum doesn't win you any favor points.

whoah.. he's the name caller. If i insult him it's because he asked for it.

Isaac. Regardless, let's not link to game downloads that are copyrighted here on the DBB. Thank you and have a nice day.

I'm sure Koolbear won't mind if I close this now, since it's so dreadfully gone awry.